For today's Five on Friday, I am going to blog five totally random things that I have on my mind right now.

1.  The goodness of God.    I have been so distracted lately with so many things.  I have been spending far too much time on Facebook, instead of focusing on God and on my family.  But God is good, He allowed circumstances to come along that made me realize how caught up in "social networking" I was.  I was not happy about the circumstances, but once I got through the tough part I realized that God was simply trying to open my eyes to my need for balance in my life.

2. My son's needs.  My son has always had some special needs, and I have not always been the best about meeting those needs.  I don't always know what will work with him when I try to teach him something.... what worked well for my other kids often does little more than confuse him.  I don't always know what curriculum or book to use with him, but God knows.

God led me to a reading curriculum that worked well for my son in First Grade, I stopped using it because it was difficult for ME to deal with.  It took a long time to complete lessons, so despite the progress my son was making, I switched several times, trying to find what would work.  What I didn't know was the extent of my son's processing problems.  God had led me to exactly what he needed.  It was thorough, systematic, orderly, multi-sensory, and contained enough review to seem redundant.  Which was exactly what my son needed. 

So now we have gone back to Saxon Phonics, the program that God led me to initially.  We are approaching it differently than before, if the lesson gets too long, we will only do half a lesson that day.    We are taking it at his pace, and not worrying about how long it takes to get through it. 

The important thing is that he makes progress, not that he performs on "grade level".

3.  My blog.  I have neglected it too long.  I want to start blogging regularly again.  This is a start!

4.  The discipleship of my children.  I know I need to start taking a more active roll in teaching them to follow God, and I need to start with my own example.  I have been letting other people and other things become too distracting to me, I am asking for God's help to refocus.

5.  My health.  I had been doing a really good job of caring for my own physical health, but I've gotten so off track lately.  I need to get back to it.

So that was today's five on Friday, I hope next week I can look back and see a week of progress in all of the areas that need it.  And I hope I will back into the rhythm of blogging every day.